物

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物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
8 strokes
Stroke order

Han character[edit]

物 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 物
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯd): semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Etymology[edit]

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Tibetan འབྲུ ('bru, “seed; grain”), Jingpho amyu (ə myú, “kind; sort”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Wu
    • Note:
    • 5veq - literary;
    • 5meq - vernacular, used in 物事.
  • Xiang
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 物
    Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
    Harbin /u⁵³/
    Tianjin /u⁵³/
    Jinan /u²¹/
    Qingdao /vu⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
    Xi'an /vo²¹/
    Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /vu¹³/
    Lanzhou /və¹³/
    Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
    Wuhan /u²¹³/
    Chengdu /u³¹/
    Guiyang /u²¹/
    Kunming /u³¹/
    Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
    Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
    Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
    Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
    Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
    /məʔ¹/
    Suzhou /vəʔ³/
    /məʔ³/
    Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
    Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
    Hui Shexian /me²²/
    Tunxi /mə¹¹/
    /uə¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
    Xiangtan /u²⁴/
    Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
    Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
    Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
    Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
    Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /but̚⁵/
    /miʔ⁵/
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uʔ⁵/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /u²⁴/
    /o²⁴/ 新
    Shantou (Min Nan) /mueʔ⁵/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /vut̚³/
    /mi³³/
    Rime
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 明 (4)
    Final (韻) 文 (60)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 文弗切
    Baxter mjut
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/mɨut̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/miut̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/miuət̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/mut̚/
    Li
    Rong         		/miuət̚/
    Wang
    Li         		/mĭuət̚/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/mi̯uət̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		wù
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		mat6
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		wù
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ mjut ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*C.mut/
    English thing

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13218
    Phonetic
    component         		勿
    Rime
    group         		物
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		物
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mɯd/

    Definitions[edit]

    物

    1. thing, matter
      物體／物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
      動物／动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
    2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
    3. substance, content
    4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
    5. to choose, to select
    6. to seek, to look for
      物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
    7. (Teochew) to do
      家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
    8. † Alternative form of 勿
    9. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 乜 (“what”)

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (to do):

    Compounds[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    物
    もの
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mo2no2⟩ → ⟨mono2⟩ → /mono/

    From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mənə.

    Alternative forms[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(もの) • (mono) 

    1. thing (concrete, tangible)
      Synonym: (slang) 物 (butsu)
      1. (law) a corporeal object
        • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
          この法(ほう)律(りつ)において「物(もの)」とは、有(ゆう)体(たい)物(ぶつ)をいう。
          Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
          The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
    See also[edit]
    • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

    Suffix[edit]

    物(もの) • (-mono) 

    1. story, genre (type of story)
      密室(みっしつ)モノ
      misshitsu-mono
      locked room story
      探(たん)偵(てい)もののドラマ
      tantei-mono no dorama
      detective drama
      冒(ぼう)険(けん)ものです。
      Bōken-mono desu.
      It is an adventure story.

    Prefix[edit]

    物(もの) • (mono-) 

    1. (non-productive, with adjectives) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Derived terms[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    /mono/ → /mon/

    Shift from mono above.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(もん) • (mon) 

    1. (informal) Alternative form of 物 (mono, “thing”)

    Etymology 3[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    物
    ぶつ
    Grade: 3
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mjut).

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

    1. (slang) thing
      Synonym: 物 (mono)

    Affix[edit]

    物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

    1. thing

    References[edit]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mjut).

    Historical Readings
    Dongguk Jeongun Reading
    Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 무ᇙ〮 (Yale: mwúlq)
    Middle Korean
    Text Eumhun
    Gloss (hun) Reading
    Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[1] 갓 (Yale: kàs) 믈〮 (Yale: múl)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    物 (eumhun 물건(物件) 물 (mulgeon mul))

    1. Hanja form? of 물 (“thing; stuff”).

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

    Kunigami[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(むぬー) (munū) 

    1. thing

    Miyako[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing

    Okinawan[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(むぬ) or 物(むん) (munu or mun) 

    1. thing

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    物: Hán Việt readings: vật
    物: Nôm readings: vật

    1. chữ Hán form of vật (“item; object; thing”).

    Yaeyama[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing

    Yonaguni[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing
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